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That "Saturday Night Live" reunion lost viewers in later hours, but the special still attracted a huge audience: 23.1 million, according to early numbers. The event rolled on for three and a half hours. In a "Wayne's World" skit, Dana Carvey joked that the 40th anniversary special felt like it had been going on 40 years. An overjoyed NBC reported that the 40th anniversary "SNL" was the network's most-watched prime-time entertainment special in more than 10 years and the most-watched "SNL" prime-time special in 22 years. "SNL" dominated the Sunday broadcast ratings. From 7 to 11 p.m., NBC averaged 20.1 million viewers...

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That "Saturday Night Live" reunion lost viewers in later hours, but the special still attracted a huge audience: 23.1 million, according to early numbers.
The event rolled on for three and a half hours. In a "Wayne's World" skit, Dana...

UPDATED: The Grammys dominated Sunday's broadcast ratings.
The awards show, which ran from 8 to 11:39 p.m., averaged 24.8 million viewers, according to ratings released Tuesday. But the sprawling show saw a dip from last year's audience of 28.5...

The February sweeps start Thursday, and you've probably noticed the increased promotion for special reports (starting Thursday) by local stations.
The sweeps are usually about broadcast networks presenting big events to bolster their stations and...

UPDATED: You're really following the NFL, Central Florida.
The four playoff games this weekend put up huge ratings and reconfirmed that the NFL offers the biggest show in television.
The most-watched game was Indianapolis' victory over Denver on CBS...

Scarcely have the holidays departed, the last bite of figgy pudding or sip of egg nog cycled through our system, the last present sorted for use or reuse, than the winter television season comes crashing down upon us, laden with gifts of its own. Yes,...

UPDATED: Tom Brady put on the biggest show in prime time Sunday. (In Orlando, he had serious competition from zombies.)
Brady's performance on NBC's "Sunday Night Football" averaged 20.8 million viewers. Brady and New England beat...

Fox's "Family Guy" and ABC's "Resurrection" were Sunday night's highest-rated network shows among key young adults, though it appears that golf-boosted CBS had the best ratings overall.
"Family Guy" scored a rating...

The former ABC executive who helped "America's Funniest Home Videos" producer Vin Di Bona bring his vast repository of amateur videos to the Web has left the company they founded amid differences over the future direction of the company.
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Sunday nights are usually an easy ratings win for NBC's big NFL games. However, with the fourth game of the World Series and a football game that ran into prime time, it looks like Fox was the highest-rated network this time.
That's according to early...

It's been almost 20 years since the ABC sitcom "Full House" ended in 1995, but this year's Super Bowl will give America another chance to check in on Danny, Uncle Joey and Uncle Jesse.
"Full House" stars John Stamos, Dave...

With a "Sunday Night Football" showdown between the Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints, NBC had no trouble breezing past the other major broadcast networks.
According to early numbers from Nielsen, which are subject to change because the...

In this interview series, we ask famous free thinkers to recast the Oscars in their own image. Let's give a big Oscar night welcome to Canadian cartoonist, film critic and filmmaker Rick Trembles.
Rick Trembles' illustrated movie review column Motion...